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The International Association of
Hebrew Free Loan will hold its annual
conference at the Troy Marriott Hotel
Saturday - Monday, Sept. 16-18.
Attending will be directors of Hebrew
Free Loan associations from major cities
in the United States and Canada.
The IAHFL has 50 member HFLAs
and has been active for -20 years. The
conference will be hosted by the HFLA
of Detroit, which has branches in Flint
and Grand Rapids.
During the conference, the IAHFL
will have its annual award banquet,
where it will honor host members'
exemplary philanthropists with its
Maimonides G'millut Chassodim
Award. The banquet will be 6:30 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 18. Honorees will be
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Penny Blumenstein and Emery Klein, a

a former president of Hebrew Free Loan
and Federation leader, for outstanding
service to HFL and being supporters of
many causes in the community
To coincide with these awards, the
HFLA of Detroit will confer its annual
Legacy Award to Marlene Borman, the
first woman president of HFLA.
The keynote speaker will be Joel
Tauber, chairman of the executive com-
mittee of the United Jewish
Communities and past president of the
United Jewish Appeal.
Presenting the awards to Blumenstein
and Klein will be Dr. Conrad Giles, vice
chairman of the executive committee of
the United Jewish Communities.
Presenting the award to Borman will be
Robert Aronson, chief executive officer
of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit.

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Ruth Miller Marcus has resigned from
the Hebrew Free Loan Association due
to illness; she suffered a heart attack ear-
lier this year.
Marcus joined
Detroit's HFLA in
1982 and become its
executive director in
1986, the first in the
agency's 100 years of
service to the Detroit
Jewish community
During her 18 years
Ruth Miller
with the agency,
Marcus
HFLA expanded its
loan volume and outreach. She staffed
the milestone celebrations of the
agency's 95th and centennial celebra-
tions.
During her tenure, Marcus, along
with certain key volunteers and the

HFLA board, was instrumental in devel-
oping the Neighborhood Project and
HFLAs continuing role in this Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit pro-
gram. Hebrew Free Loan's activity in
both the Jewish Educational Loan
Service and the resettlement of Russian
immigrants in our community was
widened due in part to Marcus' efforts.
Recently, she coordinated contact with
Jewish communities in Michigan to help
meet the needs of the Jewish poor out-
side of the Detroit area.
For more than 10 years, Marcus rep-
resented the Detroit HFLA to the
International Association of Hebrew
Free Loans. She served as its president
from 1996-98. Recently, Marcus had
been helping to coordinate the annual
conference planned in metro Detroit
this fall.

Hillel Headmaster Serves Nationally

Dr. Smiley has been
Dr. Mark Smiley, headmaster
headmaster of Hillel Day
of Hillel Day School of
School since 1988. He is a
Metropolitan Detroit, was
fourth-year rabbinical stu-
named to the National
dent at the Jewish
Advisory Committee for the
Theological Seminary of
New Jewish High School of
America.
Greater Los Angeles.
Dr. Smiley teaches at the
He also was asked to serve
William Davidson School
on the National Recruitment
of Education. He is married
Committee for the American
to Aviva Silverman, head of
Hebrew Academy in
Dr. Mark Smiley upper school Judaics for
Greensboro, N.C. The
Hillel Day School. They
American Hebrew Academy is
have three children and live in
a new college-preparatory high school
based in Greensboro.
Farmington Hills.